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CTOnews.com July 20 news, makeup brand Estée Lauder recently announced that the company was attacked by hackers. It is reported that Estée Lauder said that the company's security department found unauthorized users accessing information in the system last week, and the company immediately shut down the system and contacted relevant security experts to launch an investigation.

Estée Lauder, the official website of ▲ Picture Source Estée Lauder, believes that the hacker group has obtained some information from the system, but does not know exactly what information has been leaked. In addition, Estée Lauder also admitted that this incident has caused disruptions in the business operations of some subsidiaries, and it will take some time to gradually resume the business of the affected subsidiaries.

After inquiry, Tuyuan PexelsCTOnews.com learned that there was more than one hacker group that invaded Estée Lauder Company, and security researchers named BrettCallow found that, in fact, two hacker organizations currently claimed to have "invaded Estée Lauder Company."

Tweets posted by ▲ image source BrettCallow

Tweets posted by ▲ image source BrettCallow

Clop, a tweet hacker group posted by ▲ source BrettCallow, said on its secret website this week that it had obtained the information on the 131GB of Estée Lauder's company, and claimed that Estée Lauder actually did not care about the loss of customer information and did not attach importance to the security of the company's system.

At the same time, another hacker group, BlackCat, said that they had also invaded Estée Lauder Company. in fact, long before the invasion, the hacker group had already sent an email to the director of Estée Lauder, claiming to "invade", but did not get a response from Estée Lauder.

BlackCat also mocked Estée Lauder for using the security services of Microsoft and Google Mandiant, but "it didn't work" and was "easily broken by them." BlackCat also hinted that they had obtained the data of Estée Lauder's customers, suppliers and employees.

▲ source Bleeping Computer, while according to the "Bleeping Computer" report, the hackers are currently asking Estée Lauder to pay a large ransom in exchange for relevant customer information. In addition, the hackers did not actually encrypt Estée Lauder's company data, but only stole Estée Lauder's customer information, but if Estée Lauder is not willing to pay the ransom, they will release all the stolen customer information.

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